2.īefore Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. The official Instrument of Surrender, though, wasn’t signed between the United States and Japan until Sept. After World War II’s climatic yet quick-ending outcome, both pilots and their crews emerged as America’s newest heroes for bringing the Japanese government to its knees. Charles Sweeney, each born to middle-class families, had been hailed as hometown heroes during the war. Much of the success of the two war-ending bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted from top-secret training accomplished at the Wendover (Utah) Air Field during a six-month span beginning in December 1944.Ĭol. 14, fighting in the Pacific came to a grinding halt except for some pockets of resistance, mostly on the smaller islands dotted across the western part of the ocean.
6, 1945, to the emperor’s surrender the following week on Aug. Nine days in August changed the course of World War II.įrom dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan 75 years ago on Aug.
Published in the High Desert Advocate in the August 21st, 2020 Edition
